Open AccessPaulus og neurobiologien
Author(s) -
Troels EngbergPedersen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
dansk teologisk tidsskrift
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1902-3898
pISSN - 0105-3191
DOI - 10.7146/dtt.v74i3.106390
Subject(s) - argumentation theory , argument (complex analysis) , christianity , focus (optics) , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , religious studies , medicine , physics , optics
This review discussion of Colleen Shantz, Paul in Ecstasy etc. describes the main argument of the book, criticizes various details of its argumentation and concludes with a general assessment, which basically applauds the focus on ‘religious experience’ and the attempt to bring in both contemporary neuroscience and social anthropology to elucidate Paul and Pauline Christianity, but also queries whether these modern disciplines are at present sufficiently precise for it to be possible to draw any firm conclusions regarding the historical material.